Govan Family History
- Govan Name Meaning
- habitational name from Govan near Glasgow, first recorded c.1134 as Guven, possibly meaning ‘place of the smith’, although more recently a Cumbric word gir ‘hill’ has been suggested. from a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac a’Ghobhainn ‘son of the smith’, from gobha ‘smith’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 82,813 Historical Documents with Govan on Ancestry
- 24,945 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,378 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,276 Military Records
- 3,508 Immigration Records
- 29,706 Member Trees
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Number of Govan families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Govan families
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117 - 232 40 - 116 |
1 - 39 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Govan census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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